Setting, Conflict, And Foreshadowing In The Most Dangerous Game By Richard Connell

In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell the main character Rainsford falls off a boat and is forced to swim to, what is known to be, an ominous island. On this island he meets a hunter. But, this hunter is no ordinary man. He hunts humans instead of animals, and calls it a game.Within the story, the author uses setting, conflict, and foreshadowing to prove that not everything turns out the way one plans it. To begin with, Connell uses setting to prove the theme. In the text it says “There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was a -- a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread… ‘It’s so dark,’ he thought, ‘that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night